Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-04
DALLAS FAIR.
Chez mRn and Fart worth Day bout
$4,000 People in Attendance.
Balloon Ascension.
Sem" More Fine Il cling Saturday Posi-
lively the Lsst Chance to Attend the
Big ShOW-No Extension.
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DALLAS, TEX, Nov. 3.-T5e attendance
to-day reached the $4,000 mark, snd il
would not be inappropriate TO style this
Sherman and Fort Worth &ay, for the big
down from Sherman the Sherman INST
tute students TO the number OF l25, all
handsome young ladies', dressed in tie
regulation uniform Of a greyish Drown
dress aid an Oxford-Iike cap. AS they
marched through Exposition hall there
were many words of commendatioD
passed Mr. FsulkGer OF the Houston
and Texas Central brought the young
ladies down on special train and
showed them every attention. Professor
Nash and the full corps Of teachers were
present TO care for their charges. Among
the pupils were several Fort Worth
girls. The reason this might also
be called Fort Worth day
is that 900 Fort Worthiaps came in on
one train and no matter Whar department
one went in the fEces Of Fort Worth
people could be seen. Il IS an open
secret here that She Fort Worth men
who invt sted in pools st the races are
several thousand dollars ahead and will
return full hsnded.
The fair managers have decided posi-
lively that Saturday shall close the expo
sition, and those who intend to visit the
fair may make up their minds that Sstur-
day will be the last chance to attend.
The Mexican band to-day got down TO
earth with their music, and Dixie, Bonnie
Blue Flag, Star Spangled Banner and
Yankee Doodle rang through the hall.
While this music may not be truly
aesthetic, it is cert4inly more satisfying
thsn the combination of notes that de-
light the descendants of the AztecS.
Tom Green county's exhibit was to-
day crowded ss usual. As TaE GAZETTE
has stated previously, when people see
with their own eyes what
counties I9cSted in what was
f1rmerly known as the Great
Amer lean desert, can raise in the way cf
fYnits, vegetables and grain they discover
the county of Tom Green to be "Some
Pumpkins, the legend embellishing the
fqusshes and pumpkins of the exhibit.
The g. 6. d. must go and San Angelo pee
pie are doing much to move it.
There was q very pretty balloon ascen-
sion to-day without the parachute, and
jgst when Miss Bates will do the "cut
loose IN mldSlr" act Is mol known.
THE RACES.
TIE programme to-day Wes good ore
there being five races on the score CARDS
and special race against time By You
Bet, VINO was to pace with a running
mgSe to beat 2;16. You Bet has g. record
Of 2:09 6, made 1T Kansas City this
year. Pool selling to-day wGs lively in
Inc mutuals alone, over $4,000 worth OF
tickets being disposed Of. The side bet
ting vas also heavy, aud it is 3 conserve
tive estimate TO say that S25, 900 changed
hsnds on Go-dsy's racing. The men who
sra broke are equally Gs numerous as
those who are ahead. Tiers IVES soma
big money Won on the heat in the hall
mile dazh, in which there were niue
starters. Lis Ferguson found thirty
seven men who believed she could wiz
the heat, while there were over 400 who
thought differently, the consequence being
that each snd every man Of the thirty
seven got more than so for every 81 he
invested.
The first rsce to-day was the 2:40 trot,
carried over from yesterday, in which
Lexington took tie first heat. Lexington
was still favorite, but it was stated yes
teFdaT that Dude Il was TO win, and so it
gss. In the third heat Charles H was
rushed under the wire in an effort to push
Dade H and bresk him down, but the lit
tie black had staying qualities sufficient
10 win.